To Whom This May Concern

Re: Urgent Need of Support

In couple past days, more specifically, on 13th of August today the KDP via their security forces in Duhok governorate has been constantly doing many undemocratic acts and far away from any humanitarian law with arresting, prosecuting and detaining tens of civil activists, journalists, teachers and regular civilians.

According to our latest statistics, the total number of detainees are 45, some have been bailed out of prison while the majority are staying in with no accurate information about their current conditions, the below are names mentioned.

In Zakho city, more than 100 civilians have been arrested and yet there is no information about them or how many are out of jail.

We would like to heavily warn about the detainees’ health situation, here some points clarifying this illegal act by the authorities:

1. This process was done without any judge permit for arrest, and journalists, activists and teachers were arrested in a barbaric fashion with all kind of humiliation without any clear specific charges except accusing them to participate in protests, addition to that, their relatives and lawyers are not allowed to visit them in prison. This is a dangerous act toward democracy in Duhok and the whole region

2. The medical and psychological condition is in critical and extremely dangerous stage in the prison, according to one of whom has been bailed out, he didn’t receive any food or water for 4 days and was staying in a room with very low oxygen level in Zakho Asaysh building. And he specifically mentioned the name of journalist Ahmad Zakhoy and Jangir Sindi which their condition described as critical

3. Duhok Asaysh pushes people and civil activists to sign wavers then arrests them with various accusations

The names are:

1_badal barwary (teacher_duhok)

2_qeydar hussein (journalist_akre)

3_difae harky (journalist_akre)

4_umed baroshky (activist_duhok)

5_ahmed zakhoy (journalist_zakho)

6_farooq omer (journalist_zakho)

7_mehvan majeed (journalist_zakho)

8_jangir sundy (activist_zkho)

9_azad mehmud (activist_semel)

10_amjad yossef (activist_sheladze)

11_mussa ghazi (activist_sheladze)

12_abdula osman (zakho)

13_jemal meshekhti (zakho)

14_ali sherwfani (semel)

15_shkeran zevart (journalist_akre)

16_nihad oremary (journal_akre)

17_abdullhameed mandani (teacher_semel)

18_salih abduljabar (teacher_duhok)

19_remezan jibrael (sheladze)

20_sipan loqman (sheladze)

21_sherwan saeed omer (activist_duhok)

22_sabah dosky (teacher_sheladze)

23_kemal remzi (journalist_zakho)

24_hashim mustefa tayib (bagera)

25_kawar nazir (activist_duhok)

26_karwan sadiq (journalist_duhok)

27_ayhan saeed omer (journalist_duhok)

28_azad spindary (duhok)

29_ dilshad guherzi (activist_duhok)

30_jelal chey (activist_sheladze)

31_heval nosart (activist_duhok)

32_muhemed saeed (journalist_duhok)

33_abdula mikaeel (activist_akre)

34_meer nerwey (journalist_deralok)

35_marin serny (journalist_deralok)

36_yonis mehmod (activist_duhok)

37_yossef selam (activist_semel)

38_aram shakir (activist_duhok)

39_aziz hassan (activist_duhok)

40_sherwan sherefani (duhok)

41_reber yassin (activist_duhok)

42_sherzad kucher (activist_semel)

43_bekhtyat duhoky (activist_duhok)

group of civil right

activist and journalist in Duhok

25/08/2020 Duhok, KRI